August 3, 2012

Many of the Syrian government’s most powerful weapons are looking less potent and in some cases like a liability for the military of President Bashar al-Assad.

By rushing to get a software trading program online, Knight Capital lost millions of dollars and created havoc on stock exchanges this week.

Thomas M. Joyce, chief executive of the Knight Capital Group, has been an unapologetic advocate of electronic trading. After Wednesday’s trading debacle at Knight, he is fighting for the firm’s survival.

Seventeen years after Baithe Diop’s slaying, a federal investigator linked the killing to a confession by two gang members.

“Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” has the former heavyweight boxing champion telling stories of his life in this one-man show at the Longacre Theater.

Market makers who once might have stepped in during trading mishaps have largely been replaced by computers programmed to make lucrative high-frequency trades.

Kayla Harrison was sexually abused by her judo coach when she was 13. She overcame that trauma and won the United States’ first gold in the sport.

A Senate committee passed a bill in favor of a tax break for the wind industry on a bipartisan vote on Thursday, helped by Republicans from states where wind power is common.

With limited capacity, zoos are often choosing between two controversial methods of limiting the population of endangered species: birth control and euthanasia.

Toyota has surged back from a downturn following the natural disasters in Japan last year and is expecting to sell 23 percent more vehicles than it did in 2011.

America added more jobs than expected, a pleasant surprise after months of bad news. But the underlying details from July ranged from unimpressive to outright discouraging.

If you can look past anti-Semitism, Steven Gimbel suggests, maybe relativity is “Jewish science” after all.